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- Sep 20, 2016
Moscow is working on retaliatory measures for the closure in the US of two Russian diplomatic compounds and expulsion of 35 diplomats, as Washington stalls on the issue, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, amid reports that US officials could be expelled.
“This situation is just outrageous,” Lavrov said, noting that the two diplomatic compounds confiscated by the Obama administration in December of 2016 have still not been released
I believe that it is just shameful for such a great country as the US, which champions international law, to leave the situation in suspension,” the top Russian diplomat said, adding the confiscation was just a final spasm of an administration trying to do maximum damage to US-Russian relations and everything possible to maneuver the new Trump administration into an awkward position.
We are thinking about some particular steps now,” the foreign minister told journalists, saying that he did not believe those steps should be publicly discussed at the moment. He mentioned, however, that Moscow would seek justice and demand that international norms regarding diplomatic property be observed
There is a preliminary agreement concerning a meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon in St. Petersburg. If the sides fail to find a compromise [during that meeting], we will have to resort to [reciprocal] measures,” a Foreign Ministry official told Izvestia, without specifying the date of the meeting.Citing sources it has within the Russian Foreign Ministry, Izvestia reported that Russia is planning to expel some 30 US diplomats and seize US diplomatic property in response.
Another ministry source told the daily that a summer residence for US embassy staff in northwestern Moscow could be seized, as well as a warehouse in the Russian capital.
In six months, Trump either could not resolve the issue or did not see fit to settle it. Now, we must draw the line and take tit-for-tat measures,” the deputy head of the Russian Federation Council’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Andrey Klimov, told Izvestia.
https://www.rt.com/news/396038-moscow-tough-response-us/
“This situation is just outrageous,” Lavrov said, noting that the two diplomatic compounds confiscated by the Obama administration in December of 2016 have still not been released
I believe that it is just shameful for such a great country as the US, which champions international law, to leave the situation in suspension,” the top Russian diplomat said, adding the confiscation was just a final spasm of an administration trying to do maximum damage to US-Russian relations and everything possible to maneuver the new Trump administration into an awkward position.
We are thinking about some particular steps now,” the foreign minister told journalists, saying that he did not believe those steps should be publicly discussed at the moment. He mentioned, however, that Moscow would seek justice and demand that international norms regarding diplomatic property be observed
There is a preliminary agreement concerning a meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon in St. Petersburg. If the sides fail to find a compromise [during that meeting], we will have to resort to [reciprocal] measures,” a Foreign Ministry official told Izvestia, without specifying the date of the meeting.Citing sources it has within the Russian Foreign Ministry, Izvestia reported that Russia is planning to expel some 30 US diplomats and seize US diplomatic property in response.
Another ministry source told the daily that a summer residence for US embassy staff in northwestern Moscow could be seized, as well as a warehouse in the Russian capital.
In six months, Trump either could not resolve the issue or did not see fit to settle it. Now, we must draw the line and take tit-for-tat measures,” the deputy head of the Russian Federation Council’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Andrey Klimov, told Izvestia.
https://www.rt.com/news/396038-moscow-tough-response-us/
